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Robert Gavin Hampson


Robert Gavin Hampson (born 1948) is a British poet and academic. Hampson was born and raised in Liverpool, before studying in London and Toronto and finally settling in London. Hampson has taught at Royal Holloway, University of London, since 1973, and has been a Professor of Modern Literature there since 2000.

Robert Gavin Hampson was born in Liverpool in 1948. He studied English Literature at King's College London and was awarded a Commonwealth Scholarship to complete a master's degree at University of Toronto. He then returned to King's College, London, where he completed a PhD on Joseph Conrad.

During the 1970s he co-edited the poetry magazine Alembic with Peter Barry and Ken Edwards and was a key figure in the British Poetry Revival. His work as one of the editors of Alembic has received attention in two books by Wolfgang Gortschacher - Little Magazine Profiles: The Little Magazines in Great Britain, 1939-1993 (University of Salzburg, 1993) and Contemporary Views on the Little Magazine Scene (Poetry Salzburg, 2000)- and, more recently, in an interview (with Ken Edwards) by Sophie Seita in the magazine mimeo mimeo (2014). His best-known work is probably Seaport, which has been written about by Peter Barry, Andrew Duncan, Amy Cutler, Neal Alexander and others. His poetry has been translated into German, Italian and Rumanian. See, for example, Wolfgang Gortschacher & Ludwig Laher, So Also Ist Das: Eine Zweisprachige Anthologie Britischer Gegenswartslyrik (Haymon-Verlag, 2002), and the translation of the sequence 'Lou Mistrau' in the Italian journal 'Soglie' (August 2014).. In 2012, his collection 'Reworked Disasters was long-listed for the Forward Prize. His more recent work includes 'love's damage', which was published in the Surrey Poetry Festival Magazine (21.05.11), edited by Amy De'Ath and Jonty Tiplady <<static1.1.sqspcdn.com/static/f/436447/12796874>>; 'sonnets 4 sophie' first published in Veer Vier (September 2013)<<epc.buffalo.edu/library/Veer-56-1014.pdf>>, while 'an explanation of colours' was reviewed by Edmund Hardy and Melissa Flores-Borquez in Intercapillary Space <<http://intercapillaryspace. blogspot.co.uk>> and 'out of sight' (crater, 2012)and 'Liverpool (hugs &) kisses', his 2014 collaboration with Robert Sheppard, are reviewed on the other room website. <<http://otherroom.org/tag/roberthampson>>


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